Farms from the Far North and the East Coast have made the Ahuwhenua finals.

Shanghai Pengxin's subsidiary Milk New Zealand Holdings won two prizes at the recent BNZ New Zealand Chinese Business Awards.

Wintering dairy cows may be a useful pasture development tool but once the bulk of the regrassing’s done, sheep and beef can at least match the returns, say award winning North Otago farmers Blair and Jane Smith.

Permanent electric fence power and wireless water level monitoring will be prominent on the Gallagher site at the Northland Field Days.

Producing the same quantity of milksolids from half the number of cows would be a winning formula for any farmer.

Organisers of the first ever Hilux New Zealand Rural Games confirmed it will become an annual event after attracting more than 7500 spectators to Queenstown over the Waitangi holiday weekend.

Why did you decide to plant grapes and create your own label? That must be the most asked question owners of small wineries face.

CRITICS SAY the recent ‘It’s now or never’ Ruataniwha meeting organised by IrrigationNZ and Federated Farmers did not compare the operational set-up of Hawke’s Bay’s proposed irrigation scheme with others in New Zealand. 

LET FODDER beet grow out rather than raid it for a summer feed if at all possible, says Agricom’s Northland North Island sales manager Ben Trotter.

HIGH COMMODITY prices doubled the annual profit of corporate farmer Rural Equities Ltd in the last financial year.